"So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing"(Orwell 136).
To live, you must have the freedom to make your own choices. Otherwise, one life would be the same as the next. This is the world in which Winston lives. The Party promotes uniformity. It is this very concept that rebels like Winston and Julia seek to escape. If you are not living your own life, what are you living? Are you even living at all? To these questions, Winston would argue no. So long as humans can feel the desire to live their own lives, being alive and not allowed to do so will be the same as death. The suppression of emotions, the constant biting your tongue, and the invasion of privacy that is Telescreens kill the people. Not physically maybe, but it kills them mentally and emotionally. With those two parts dead, all that is left is a robotic skeleton. Robots don't live and die, they just exist. A "dead" robot and a "live" one would have the same mental capacity, none.
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